A request was made on pop star Lily Allen’s Twitter account for her 6 million followers to help “find out the true identity” of a woman who questioned details of Allen’s account of her son’s death.
Allen claimed on Twitter that she suffered from PTSD relating to the death of her first son. Allen claimed that her stillborn child was left partially inside her for over 10 hours during the birthing process.
when I lay in a hospital bed with my deceased son stuck between my legs halfway out of my body for 10 hours.
— LILY ALLEN (@lilyallen) February 25, 2017
One Twitter user questioned Allen’s portrayal of events:
https://twitter.com/lisaj21_x/status/835634426663022592
Shortly after this, Allen claimed that an unknown man named “Dennis” would be taking control of her account although many Twitter users questioned whether or not Allen was still operating the account.
Hi , I'm Dennis,I'll be looking after lily's twitter for a while.I can only communicate in gif form,and I'm going on a hate blocking spree.
— LILY ALLEN (@lilyallen) February 25, 2017
Allen received several antagonistic and trollish remarks in reply to her tweets about PTSD, but for some reason “Dennis” used Allen’s account to target the user who questioned Allen’s version of events relating to her son’s death, posting a picture of the user and asking for Allen’s fans to reveal her identity.
Someone called Dennis who is apparently running Lily Allen's feed just asked her millions of followers to help dox someone.
Classy. pic.twitter.com/aAu7ewttL3
— DatNoFact ↗ (@datnofact) February 26, 2017
When asked to remove the photo and request for information, Allen’s account allegedly replied that the user must first publicly apologize for the comments directed towards Allen:
https://twitter.com/lisaj21_x/status/835893090435149824
Users across Twitter quickly called out Allen for requesting the personal info of the Twitter user, an act often known as “doxing”.
#BanLilyAllen The person running her account, "Dennis" literally just tried to dox somebody for disagreeing with him#LilyAllen
— Rika Furude 🏴 🇱 🇵 (@Hellstorm901) February 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/Ayre_1660/status/836104515984232448
I agree. @lilyallen should have been banned from Twitter for telling followers to dox a woman.
— Loula Belle (@loulabelleaus) February 27, 2017
Twitter has not responded to a request for comment at this time.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan_ or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com
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